Mindless Behavior's most recent album, "All Around the World," hit the Top 10 on the pop charts earlier this year. (Photo courtesy of Interscope Records)

It’s time to get Mindless. Here’s a quick primer, as boy band Mindless Behavior prepares for a swing through Alabama that includes the group’s first arena concert in Mobile.

A Birmingham show takes place at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 18, at the BJCC Concert Hall; prices range from $35 to $45 plus fees. The Mobile show begins at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the Mobile Civic Center Arena, with tickets set at $43 plus fees. Both shows feature the OMG Girlz and Coco Jones. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.

Since the beginning of July, the group has started on the West Coast and followed with a string of dates on the East Coast. Mindless Behavior member Roc Royal recently took a few minutes to talk about what the band is bringing into the party. “We’ve heard about Mobile a lot, actually, one of our good friends from the OMG Girlz is from Mobile, Alabama,” he said. “We’ve heard that it’s very live up there, we can’t wait to turn it up.”

1. Mindless by Design: Some groups don’t really want you to know they’ve been engineered by music industry masterminds, but with Mindless Behavior, it’s right up there in the official bio: “In 2008, the group was born from a concept created by Conjunction Entertainment Inc. CEO Walter Millsap (Beyonce, Alicia Keys, J. Lo) and Streamline Records head Vincent Gamble (Lady Gaga).” An open audition of more than 600 potential performers yielded Prodigy, Princeton, Roc Royal and Ray Ray. All brought skills and experience to the project. Ray Ray, for example, “studied under legendary L.A. battle dancer Tommy the Clown.”

2. Musical Behavior: The music can be broadly described as a mix of R&B, pop and hip-hop. This translates into driving bass and heavily produced vocals wrapped in a swirl of intense pop arrangements. It’s music seemingly designed to make the young feel young and the old feel older. It’s found an audience: The group’s 2011 debut album, “#1 Girl,” hit No. 2 on the Billboard’s R&B Chart and No. 7 on the overall pop chart. Its second, “All Around the World,” was released in March 2013 along with a film of the same title. It topped the R&B chart and No. 6 on the pop chart. The group hasn’t had major crossover success on the pop singles chart, but charting R&B singles include “My Girl,” “Mrs. Right” and “Keep Her on the Low.”

3. Just because you’re Mindless doesn’t mean you can’t have ambition. “We want to hit No. 1 on every single chart there is,” said Roc Royal. “We want to be the Michael Jackson of the boy bands.” He said he hopes that by year’s end, the group will be at work recording its third album.

4. Getting Mindless means everything. And nothing. But you have to experience it in person. “Videos is really a different thing from seeing us in person, seeing how we really get down,” Roc Royal said. “When you’re with us, you’re definitely going to feel Mindless. You’re going to feel that Mindless energy. What I mean by that, that Mindless energy, is that what we’re doing on stage, we’re doing for the fans. Everything is just going to be fun. We’re just going to turn it up, man.”

5. Speaking of the fans: “Our fans is Mindless,” said Roc Royal. “Our fans are sometimes Mindless in a bad way, and sometimes Mindless in a good way. But we love them, we respect them, they treat us with their respect. Our fans is like friends, is how we treat them.”

6. There actually might be a message underneath all this Mindlessness. “What I really hope they can take away [from the concert experience] is that you can be anything in life as long as you work real hard for it,” said Roc Royal. “Don’t ever let no one say you can’t. I came from the streets of south central L.A., where, you know, people barely make it. … Really we’re there to inspire, so we just hope that when they come in, they come in inspired and they leave out inspired even more.”